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by marcus_holmes 5 hours ago
Sorry I don't understand, what am I believing that has always been the case?
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That you could reimplement a software and then be license free. Or did I read you wrong?
That's a separate thing. I mean, valid, and a good point to raise, but I wasn't raising it.

I was more talking about the weird space we're getting into where code is completely open, because it was generated and cannot have any copyright protection, but also unpublished, and so effectively proprietary. The opposite of OSS, where code is available but protected by copyright-based licenses.